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In 1966, while working on a feature about a Picasso exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I recorded the pre-opening preparations and observed a moment: One of the cleaners stopped, puzzled, in front of the Picassos. I think that this is an image that can be universally understood, but with a grain of salt. I never chose this image in edits before because it seemed to me that it felt posed-the composition was a little too perfect. But, believe me, it was a lucky moment.

Micha Bar-Am

Art, Believe, Thinking

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We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Dimitar Sasselov

Rocks, Water, Needs

"How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

Christian Kane

Doe, Actors, Singers

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The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

Jeremy Griffith

Country, Real, Differences

Jeremy Griffith (2016). “Freedom: The End of the Human Condition”, p.638, WTM Publishing and Communications

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Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

Richard Davenport-Hines

People, Doe, Culture

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You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

Emily Rios

Teacher, Growing Up, Teaching

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I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.

Sergio Troncoso

Good Day, Bad Day, Writing

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What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Delores Phillips

Ignorance, Men, Law

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Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

Delores Phillips

Mother, Godly, Body

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Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.

Molly Antopol

Reading, Writing, What Matters

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...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

Alice Walker

Believe, Ideas, Generosity

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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Miracle, Lasts, Mysterious

Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Miscellany”

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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

KRS-One

Teacher, Kings, World

Song: My Philosophy

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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

T. S. Eliot

Past, Hints, Half

1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay in skating. And I wanted to live up to whatever I could. Not so much win everything, but just to be the best that I could possibly be, to honor her memory and everything she went through to make sure that I was given the opportunities to be the best that I can be. Not to be a world champion or an Olympic gold medalist, but to be the best that I could be. And that was the most important thing that ever happened in my career.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mother, Memories, Commitment

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In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

Compassion, Collectives

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I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

Barack Obama

Race, White, America

Source: www.politico.com

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I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something. Because I had shown them something they hadn't seen before, and it amused them. That's the combo platter. That's a perfect moment.

Joss Whedon

Teacher, Teaching, College

Source: www.pbs.org

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There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

Sean Penn

Loyalty, Forgiving, Awful

Source: www.pbs.org

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There are certain religions that require you to pray five times a day and I never understood why Christians aren't asked to pray five times a day.

Cathy Hughes

Christian, Praying, Certain

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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Example, Authority

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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Napoleon Bonaparte

Eye, People, Firsts

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Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Eternal

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There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is imbued with Chinese peculiarities - is a problem that must be understood and solved by the party without delay.

Mao Zedong

Party, Chinese, Delay

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

Saint Augustine

Book, Scripture, Contradiction

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